By Janek                                              H.B. No. 1976
       74R5184 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
    1-3  Harris County to the city of Bellaire.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  AUTHORIZATION FOR CONVEYANCE.  (a)  The Texas
    1-6  Department of Transportation may convey, on behalf of the state,
    1-7  all of the interest of the state in the real property described by
    1-8  Section 2 of this Act and all improvements on the property to the
    1-9  city of Bellaire.
   1-10        (b)  This conveyance is in recognition of the development of
   1-11  the property described by Section 2 of this Act by the city of
   1-12  Bellaire as a public park and the city's continued maintenance of
   1-13  the property as a public park.
   1-14        (c)  The legislature intends that the city of Bellaire
   1-15  continue to use and maintain the property described by Section 2 of
   1-16  this Act as a public park.
   1-17        (d)  Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, does not apply
   1-18  to the conveyance authorized by this section.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  PROPERTY DESCRIPTION.  The real property
   1-20  authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act is a 0.4890
   1-21  acre (21,299 square feet) tract of land being a portion of Lots 29
   1-22  through 36 in Post Oak Court Subdivision recorded in Volume 36,
   1-23  Page 49 of the Harris County Map Records and described in deeds
   1-24  recorded under Volume 3792, Page 440; Volume 3671, Page 13; Volume
    2-1  3600, Page 693; Volume 3685, Page 425; Volume 3675, Page 498;
    2-2  Volume 3956, Page 152; Volume 3733, Page 615 and Volume 3725, Page
    2-3  635, respectively, of the Harris County Deed Records; being more
    2-4  particularly described in metes and bounds as follows:
    2-5        BEGINNING at the southwest corner of said Lot 36 and marking
    2-6  the intersection of the east right-of-way line of East Jacquet
    2-7  Drive (60 feet wide) with the north right-of-way line of Elm Street
    2-8  (60 feet wide);
    2-9        THENCE, North 02 25' 00" West, 455.00 feet along said east
   2-10  right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to a 5/8-inch iron rod
   2-11  found marking the northwest corner of aforementioned Lot 30 and
   2-12  being the beginning of a tangent curve to the left;
   2-13        THENCE, 42.36 feet along the arc of said curve, and east
   2-14  right-of-way line of East Jacquet Drive to the left having a radius
   2-15  of 55.00 feet, a central angle of 44 07' 41", a long chord bearing
   2-16  North 24 28' 51" West, 41.32 feet to a 5/8-inch iron rod found
   2-17  marking the most westerly corner of aforementioned Lot 29 for
   2-18  corner;
   2-19        THENCE, North 43 26' 19" East, 77.16 feet leaving said east
   2-20  right-of-way line to a point for corner;
   2-21        THENCE, South 02 24' 08" East, 547.02 feet along a fence
   2-22  line to a point marking the intersection of said line with the
   2-23  aforementioned north right-of-way line of Elm Street for corner;
   2-24        THENCE, South 87 35' 00" West, 39.72 feet along said north
   2-25  right-of-way line of Elm Street to the POINT OF BEGINNING,
   2-26  CONTAINING 0.4890 acre of land in Harris County, Texas.
   2-27        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    3-1  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-6  passage, and it is so enacted.